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  • "You would spit more carefully if you were still in the Guides, hubshi."

    Fiancée 2010

  • "You would spit more carefully if you were still in the Guides, hubshi."

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • "You would spit more carefully if you were still in the Guides, hubshi."

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • "Jao, hubshi!" snarled Burnes, and hit his hand aside, but the fellow still stared, and then suddenly shouted:

    Flashman Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1969

  • The movements of the shaken body were those of a Zanzibar stick dance, such as you see at Aden on the coal-boats, and even as I watched the people, the links that bound them to the white man snapped one by one, and I saw before me the hubshi

    American Notes Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Rasu the Sweeper, with many oaths and protestations, assured the Presence that such neglect as was apparent was owing to the incapacity of the hubshi and his myrmidons, Rasu's own share of the labour and that of his fellow-countryman being scrupulously performed.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • The movements of the shaken body were those of a Zanzibar stick dance, such as you see at Aden on the coal-boats, and even as I watched the people, the links that bound them to the white man snapped one by one, and I saw before me the hubshi (woolly hair) praying to a God he did not understand.

    American Notes 1889

  • _hubshi_, a Woolly One, not a Sidi [13] slave -- saved my brother's life in his turn.

    Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

  • Let the hand of justice refrain from excoriating the person of the unfortunate, wreaking double vengeance upon the hubshi, who is but fuel for Hell, like all his accursed race, and full explanation shall be made. "

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

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